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Emma Pei-Yin, an Australian novelist with Hong Kong roots, explores her childhood, heritage, and experiences in her writings.

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Encore: The hidden corners of Emma's Hong Kong — fishing villages, beaches and ancestral graveyards

And whenever she wrote, Emma found herself drawn back to Hong Kong, to the hundreds of islands, the fishing villages on stilts, the mountains, the woodlands and beaches that the tourists who think of Hong Kong as a city of neon lights, meat markets and free Wi-Fi don't really know about.

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Encore: The hidden corners of Emma's Hong Kong — fishing villages, beaches and ancestral graveyards

Emma eventually decided to come to Australia to make a life for herself as a writer.

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Encore: The hidden corners of Emma's Hong Kong — fishing villages, beaches and ancestral graveyards

And sometimes, from time to time, Emma's grandfather would tell her stories about his memories of the Second World War, when the Japanese military invaded and occupied Hong Kong.

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Encore: The hidden corners of Emma's Hong Kong — fishing villages, beaches and ancestral graveyards

tucked away in the new territories where Emma spent holidays with her grandparents, learning how to take care of the family cemetery and joining in on the Chinese festivals.

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Encore: The hidden corners of Emma's Hong Kong — fishing villages, beaches and ancestral graveyards

But Emma's Hong Kong life wasn't so much about the high-octane neon skyscraper Hong Kong.

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Encore: The hidden corners of Emma's Hong Kong — fishing villages, beaches and ancestral graveyards

Emma Pei-Yin is an Australian novelist who grew up in England and Hong Kong.